This past weekend, I went down to Charlottesville VA to visit my BFF.  The same weekend, we did a 5k together in her neighborhood, which contains lots of hills.  The race course itself was mostly on the golf cart paths in the neighborhood, which equated to more, shorter hills than if the course were set along the main roads. 

I was pleased that, despite the fact I walked the majority of the course due to the elevations and slick pavement (race was early morning so the dew hadn't evaporated yet) I was also able to run longer stretches.  Even at the end of the course, we ran about 1/4 mile to the finish line. 

Our final time was right around 51:00 - only 3:00 slower than the first race of this year! 

Its amazing how that little note overshadows the fact that I still had to walk a huge portion of the course and amazing how great that makes me feel. For the first time, I feel like I'm really growing stronger and seeing consistent results. 

Now if I can only get my training schedule to be consistent.....